Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from ArkansasUniv. Press of Mississippi, 18 сент. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 352 Daisy Bates (1914-1999) is renowned as the mentor of the Little Rock Nine, the first African Americans to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. For guiding the Nine through one of the most tumultuous civil rights crises of the 1950s, she was selected as Woman of the Year in Education by the Associated Press in 1957 and was the only woman invited to speak at the Lincoln Memorial ceremony in the March on Washington in 1963. But her importance as a historical figure has been overlooked by scholars of the civil rights movement. Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas chronicles her life and political advocacy before, during, and well after the Central High School crisis. An orphan from the Arkansas mill town of Huttig, she eventually rose to the zenith of civil rights action. In 1952, she was elected president of the NAACP in Arkansas and traveled the country speaking on political issues. During the 1960s, she worked as a field organizer for presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson to get out the black vote. Even after a series of strokes, she continued to orchestrate self-help and economic initiatives in Arkansas. Using interviews, archival records, contemporary news-paper accounts, and other materials, author Grif Stockley reconstructs Bates's life and career, revealing her to be a complex, contrary leader of the civil rights movement. Ultimately, Daisy Bates paints a vivid portrait of an ardent, overlooked advocate of social justice. |
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... became more “ vocal for women's rights ” after she returned to Detroit , where she had moved , “ paradoxically , ” she continued to maintain “ many old- school customs , such as always serving men their dinner first . ” 8 Old habits are ...
... became obsessed by him and would invent reasons to come to the commissary to stare at him , as if her gaze could “ make him pay for his sin . ” In the meantime , her own life had changed . She began to hate all things white . At one ...
... became famous, none of them are mentioned in her voluminous papers at the University of Arkansas or the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. If they are indeed related to her, it seems a bit strange that none of them appeared in her ...
... became “fast friends.” “For the next three years . . . [he] was a frequent visitor in our home.” L. C. would bring gifts for the family, a hard-to-get newspaper for Orlee, candy for her mother, imitation pearls or a bracelet for her ...
... became aware of Daisy until she moved to Little Rock in 1941 to work as a secretary for L. C. at the State Press . L. C.'s parents were also living in Memphis when Neely made these visits.10 Though L. C. told the graduate student that ...
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3 A Newspaper All Their Own | 32 |
4 Two for the Price of One | 43 |
5 An Unwavering Commitment | 53 |
6 The Bombshell of Brown v Board of Education | 65 |
7 A Foot in the Schoolhouse Door | 83 |
12 Woman of the Year | 160 |
13 Holding the Line | 173 |
14 Coping with Defeat | 191 |
15 The New York Years | 210 |
16 Going in Different Directions | 233 |
17 The Long Shadow of Little Rock | 247 |
18 MitchellvilleSelfHelp or Monument? | 259 |
19 Fighting Over a Legend | 280 |
8 Two Steps Back | 93 |
9 Front and Center | 112 |
10 Who Is That Woman in Little Rock? | 131 |
11 A Battle Every Day | 148 |
Notes | 298 |
Index | 335 |